The reason for these warnings is that a number of security vulnerabilities have been found in this VPN communications protocol. These warnings have been Apple’s way of encouraging their customers to stop using PPTP for their VPN connections and move on to other more secure VPN protocols.

For those who will still need to access PPTP VPNs, you may be able to use a third-party client to do so on macOS Sierra. A couple of third-party VPN clients I’m aware of which currently support PPTP on OS X El Capitan are Shimo and VPN Tracker.

Jeez guys. Just have your Admins fix the VPN servers and add L2TP support which the MACs support. PPTP should not be used by anyone. Windows users use SSTP and it requires a certificate as well. SO just configure L2TP to use a shared secret and you are done. Not a lot of work at all.

I have a brand new linksys business router that supports IPSec, pptp, and OpenVPN. The IPSec is not Cisco and I use pptp only to connect back to my network through my voip firewall. I really don’t care that it is not as secure as the rest of the von services but it works! I am now stuck with no connection back to my voip servers. Why do you care if we don’t have as much security it’s our choice not yours……..

dcohn99 – I actually setup a L2TP Server on our Router and BAM! Guess what – they have an issue with the implementation where only 1 user per remote public ip can log in at the same time. doesn’t work so well when a team is working at a hotel.